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portada The Unseen Truth: When Race Changed Sight in America
Type
Physical Book
Publisher
Author
Year
2026
Language
English
Pages
400
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
23.5 x 15.6 x 2.4 cm
ISBN13
9780674306080

The Unseen Truth: When Race Changed Sight in America

Lewis, Sarah (Author) · Harvard University Press · Paperback

The Unseen Truth: When Race Changed Sight in America - Lewis, Sarah

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Synopsis "The Unseen Truth: When Race Changed Sight in America"

The award-winning art historian and founder of Vision & Justice uncovers a pivotal era in the story of race in the United States when Americans came to ignore the truth about the false foundations of the nation's racial regime. In a masterpiece of historical detective work, Sarah Lewis exposes one of the most damaging lies in American history. There was a time when Americans were confronted with the fictions that shored up the nation's racial regime and learned to disregard them. The surprising catalyst was the Caucasian War--the fight for independence in the Caucasus that coincided with the end of the US Civil War. Images from the Caucasus captivated Americans but also showed that the place from which we derive "Caucasian" for whiteness was not white at all. Cultural and political figures ranging from P. T. Barnum to Frederick Douglass, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Woodrow Wilson recognized these fictions, exploiting, unmasking, critiquing, or burying them. To acknowledge the falsehood at the core of racial order proved unthinkable, especially as Jim Crow took hold. Sight became a form of racial sculpture, vision a knife excising whatever did not serve the stability of racial hierarchy. That stability was shaped, crucially, by what Americans were conditioned not to see. Groundbreaking and profoundly resonant, The Unseen Truth shows how visual tactics have long secured our regime of racial hierarchy--and offers a way to begin to dismantle it.

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